| 1. | A lugubrious being was Montparnasse. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | There were very lugubrious lines about it. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | On all sides there were lugubrious stretches. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | As the subject had grown lugubrious it was buried in a silence of the table during which Mrs. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 5. | "Truly they are," murmured the count in a lugubrious tone. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | Those four lugubrious walls had their moment of dazzling brilliancy. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | In his youth, their visits are lugubrious later on they are sinister. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, ala. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | These things are charming when one is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |